Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [art] house " in BNC.
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| 1 | On these journeys , however , he had n't been fortunate , as some of the fellows in the camp had been , in finding a cottage or a house where they were invited in to tea , which often meant , so he understood , eggs and chips or even bacon , particularly if it was a farmhouse . |
| 2 | What is a ‘ contempt ’ of Parliament or the House ? |
| 3 | Nobody had said what Marcus should do : the result was that he appeared to do little or nothing , spoke minimally and was increasingly reluctant to leave his bedroom or the house . |
| 4 | That is why it is essential , as a preliminary to any future action that the House has to consider , that there is a proper convergence of the economies . |
| 5 | Charles knew it would be unprofessional to use the pass-door from backstage to the auditorium once the house had started to fill , so he went out of the Stage Door to walk round . |
| 6 | Agreement was reached and a consent order subsequently made to the effect that the house should be sold and that the husband should pay the wife a lump sum of £9,000 from his share of the proceeds of sale . |
| 7 | The kitchen wing was at the back and to the side so the house was L-shaped ; and beyond the kitchen was a cobbled yard bounded by the stables , where they kept the cars . |
| 8 | 8 ( 1 ) In a contract to which this section applies for the letting of a house for human habitation there is implied , notwithstanding any stipulation to the contrary — ( a ) a condition that the house is fit for human habitation at the commencement of the tenancy , and ( b ) an undertaking that the house will be kept by the landlord fit for human habitation during the tenancy . |
| 9 | Right now she had enough on her plate with the club and the house — she simply did n't have time to contend with him too . |
| 10 | What should I use to seal the joint between a carport roof and the house wall ? |
| 11 | After setting fire to a collier and a house by the harbour , not very successfully , thanks to a sudden heavy storm , Jones successfully withdrew , despite the fire of a party of militia , and , when he had re-embarked , of cannon shot from some guns in the batteries which had escaped being spiked . |
| 12 | There was no vote and the House of Commons stood adjourned . |
| 13 | Mike , who has been given a car and a house by his new employers , has yet to see his new surroundings , and it will certainly be a journey into the unknown . |
| 14 | So in the urban context we encounter two rental incomes generated from the same physical entity : the ground rent and the house or occupancy rent … |
| 15 | I found a photograph of Paul as a baby in one of the albums I kept in the loft , and after the ceremony I wrote the name of the new catapult on the back of the picture , scrunched it up around a steelie and secured it with a little tape , then went down , out of the loft and the house , into the chill drizzle of a new day . |
| 16 | Open Meeting — 19 April 1988 Grant Aid and the House of Sport |
| 17 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 18 | This was their temporary bedroom while the house was being renovated . |
| 19 | The Minister tabled the statutory instrument when the House was not sitting and has just delivered a speech lasting 40 minutes . |
| 20 | It is unprecedented to deny people benefit by means of a statutory instrument tabled and coming into force when the House is not sitting . |
| 21 | One is therefore somewhat at a loss whether to regard the Committee or the House as voicing the correct view and the matter remains somewhat uncertain . |
| 22 | ‘ What do you find difficult about your teaching role ? ’ produced an almost unanimous response : lack of time on the part of either the consultant or the house officer , or both . |
| 23 | We discovered from a Department of Environment Circular that a House of Commons Committee was disgusted at our lack of rights in hostels . |
| 24 | Will the Prime Minister please show some compassion and award John Hall and the other nuclear test veterans the compensation that the House and the country believe they richly deserve ? |
| 25 | The best that I can say is that we shall receive the answer to the question that the House of Lords has asked in forthcoming months — I hope that the number involved will be few , not great . |
| 26 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |
| 27 | The Government must try to arrange its business to ensure that the Commons does not have all its work at the beginning of the session and the House of Lords has all its work at the end . |
| 28 | And then I found that there was a small hole in the wall between the hut and the house . |
| 29 | Their chapter includes recommendations from the Institute of Personnel Management and the House of Commons Employment Committee which are designed to improve the situation of older people in employment and on moving into retirement . |
| 30 | The arts community is confident the measure will pass easily since the proposal enjoys the strong support of both Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Dan Rostenkowski , chairmen respectively of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways & Means Committee , the Congressional groups that originate all tax legislation . |